Ancient population · Medieval

Raja Gira (Medieval, Pakistan)

Pakistan_RajaGira_Medieval

Raja Gira (Medieval, Pakistan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Pakistan_RajaGira_Medieval), with 1 sample from Pakistan, dated to c. 1220 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Barikot (Iron Age, Pakistan), Udegram Ghaznavid (Medieval, Pakistan) and Xinjiang Junmachanyilian Historical (Antiquity, China); the nearest living populations are Pashtun Pakistan Khattak Nowshera, Pashtun Tarkalani and Tarkalani.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H13a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1220 CE
Country
Pakistan
Sampled near
Raja Gira 34.76, 72.36
Samples
1
Catalogue
Pakistan_RajaGira_Medieval

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Barikot (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Barikot_IA3.84
2Udegram Ghaznavid (Medieval, Pakistan)Pakistan_Udegram_Medieval_Ghaznavid3.85
3Xinjiang Junmachanyilian Historical (Antiquity, China)China_Xinjiang_Junmachanyilian_Historical3.85
4Udegram Ghaznavid (Medieval)Udegram_MA_Ghaznavid3.98
5Singoor (Medieval, Pakistan)Pakistan_Singoor_Medieval4.18
6Udegram (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Udegram_IA5.26
7Butkara (Iron Age)Butkara_IA5.34
8Butkara (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Butkara_IA5.62
9Tajik BadakhshanTajik_Badakhshan5.65
10Udegram (Iron Age)Udegram_IA5.99
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Pashtun Pakistan Khattak NowsheraPashtun_Pakistan_Khattak_Nowshera2.36
2Pashtun TarkalaniPashtun_Tarkalani2.41
3TarkalaniTarkalani2.41
4Pashtun UthmankhelPashtun_Uthmankhel2.43
5UthmankhelUthmankhel2.43
6Pashtun Afghanistan NortheastPashtun_Afghanistan_Northeast2.49
7Pashtun AfghanistanPashtun_Afghanistan2.58
8Pashtun Northeast AfghanistanPashtun_Northeast_Afghanistan2.92
9Pashtun YusufzaiPashtun_Yusufzai2.96
10YusufzaiYusufzai2.96

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I7716M1176-1264 calCERaja GiraJ2a1a4b J-Z7706H13a2a